CVE-2014-3636 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause denial of service in D-Bus by exhausting file descriptor limits, affecting system stability.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2014-3636?
CVE-2014-3636 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 25 Oct 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
D-Bus 1.3.0 through 1.6.x before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 allows local users to (1) cause a denial of service (prevention of new connections and connection drop) by queuing the maximum number of file descriptors or (2) cause a denial of service (disconnect) via multiple messages that combine to have more than the allowed number of file descriptors for a single sendmsg call.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3636?
It affects 3 products.
Products include D-Bus Project D-Bus, Freedesktop Dbus, Opensuse Opensuse.
How do I fix CVE-2014-3636?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2014-3636 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3636 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Opensuse
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3636, GHSA-vh38-h8j6-grqm, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3636.